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Walking

Started by AdamGL Apr 9, 2006 at 9:38 PM 2 replies 650+ views

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Apr 9, 2006 at 9:38 PM

I think I'm posting in the right place because this involves math. I want to make my character walk. My game is a 2d sidescroller. I want to figure out what patterns there are in the motion of walking so that I can implement them and use them in my game. I don't want pre-generated animation, but a pattern so I get the basic movement. Then, I can make the character lift his leg higher to get up on a higher surface. So my question is, mathematically, how does a person walk?(side view, 2D)?

deftware

Apr 9, 2006 at 10:24 PM

A person walks however you interpret them to walk.

Are you asking how does stepping itself work?

Or the physics of the entire body as it walks?

Do you want to do a skeletal muscle/joint simulation of walking?

A person walks with their brain.

There are generally 4 states in walking

Left leg forward, right leg behind

Both legs next to eachother, left leg on the ground

Right leg forward, left leg behind

Both legs next to eachother, right leg on the ground.

AdamGL

Apr 10, 2006 at 11:45 AM

The stepping. I get the mechanics of it, but I don't know how I would implement all of the joint positions and the angles of the extremities.

lonesock

Apr 11, 2006 at 12:07 AM

In my game I just control the body and foot position, and have the engine work out how to position the leg. For a two-part leg this is pretty easy. You may want to Google for Inverse Kinematics.

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